Alexandra Thinks About Things

On The Road Again

Thanks to the German Bahn, I gained an hour offline in a train. All my tasks I could finish without the internet are done now, so I thought to myself I could as well blog something.

I squeezed myself into the ICE to Basel SBB with a incredibly heavy suitcase, a backpack, a cardboard roll holding posters and my handbag. A whole hour later than planned because of severe stupidness on my side. This turned out to be extra annoying when shortly before Siegburg the train stopped before a no longer working switch. We had to travel back nearly all the way to Cologne main station and slowly. Hence the gained hour.

I am on my way to attend the OpenExpo in Bern where I will give a presentation and back up Luca and Eckhart at the KDE booth. Claudia sent me the posters and some T-shirts and thanks to a quick reaction from Novell I now have 200 something openSUSE DVDs in my small suitcase. The latter gives me funny looks since a suitcase of that size is not expected to be heavy. Believe me – this one is!

I am looking forward to put on my KDE hat again and meet with all the nice Swiss FOSS folks in Bern tomorrow. But first I want food and a bed.

The initial train by the way actually never made it to Basel and my extra hour quickly evolved into one and a half hours but that’s another story.

About me

A Girl Gone Geek.

Discovered the Usenet in 94 and has been lost ever since. Started toying with web sites when browsers were called Lynx. Contributed to KDE. Spent 10 years living opera somewhere in the middle of it all. Learnt a lot.